On my Ryzen hardware, these patched (meltdown and spectre) kernels are unstable for me, meaning spontaneous logouts once or twice per day.
4.14.0-14.1-liqorix-amd64
4.14.0-3-amd
4.14.0-bpo.3-amd64 currently testing again, it used to go to a black screen with a cursor only like below, but there was a synaptic kernel update, among others, and now it boots, up for 2 hrs so far. But I bet will also be unstable???!
and
4.9.0-5amd64 boots to a black screen with a blinking cursor

If I run the antix 4.10 kernel, the system is unconditionally stable in MX 17 and antix 17, I have >41 days uptime with no crashes or lockups.
In antix, there is a replacement for 4.10, 4.9.75. Yup, by the 75th revision of 4.9 , it gets pretty close to 4.10. And is 6 days stable in antix 17 on this machine, so I think it is good like 4.10, but patched.
anticapitalistita wrote

Use the 4.9.77.antix.1 kernel (This *should work the same as default 4.10.5

Actually the closest match is the 4.9.75.antix.2 kernel ...I think is the closest match to 4.10

How can I run that kernel in MX 17?
It is not in the MX package installer.

And for me, sometimes, I have the black screen blinking cursor problem.
So critical is the nvidia driver. I need a working NVIDIA 375.82
And sometimes installing the kernel does not always get the driver configured or built right I am assuming from the symptom.

Right, I wouldn't want to boot it first, I probably have made the mistake in the past....

So I ran that after installing 4.9.75-gnu-antix.2-amd64-smp, and the headers.
Ran the dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-kernel-dkms as root,
it configured for many kernels, but nothing I see for 4.9.75.
(all 4.14, 4.10 kernels I also have installed...I should delete them, as they are unstable.)

So, with nothing for the 4.9.75 listed, I am hesitant to boot into that...I suppose I could try to boot it...

Last edited by entropyfoe on Sun Jan 28, 2018 10:25 pm, edited 1 time in total.

root@Ryzen:/home/music# dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-kernel-dkms
-------- Uninstall Beginning --------
Module: nvidia-current
Version: 375.82
Kernel: 4.10.5-antix.3-amd64-smp (x86_64)
-------------------------------------
Status: Before uninstall, this module version was ACTIVE on this kernel.
nvidia-current.ko:
- Uninstallation
- Deleting from: /lib/modules/4.10.5-antix.3-amd64-smp/updates/dkms/
- Original module
- No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
- Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.
nvidia-current-modeset.ko:
- Uninstallation
- Deleting from: /lib/modules/4.10.5-antix.3-amd64-smp/updates/dkms/
- Original module
- No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
- Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.
nvidia-current-drm.ko:
- Uninstallation
- Deleting from: /lib/modules/4.10.5-antix.3-amd64-smp/updates/dkms/
- Original module
- No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
- Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.
nvidia-current-uvm.ko:
- Uninstallation
- Deleting from: /lib/modules/4.10.5-antix.3-amd64-smp/updates/dkms/
- Original module
- No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
- Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.
depmod...
DKMS: uninstall completed.
-------- Uninstall Beginning --------
Module: nvidia-current
Version: 375.82
Kernel: 4.14.0-14.1-liquorix-amd64 (x86_64)
-------------------------------------
Status: Before uninstall, this module version was ACTIVE on this kernel.
nvidia-current.ko:
- Uninstallation
- Deleting from: /lib/modules/4.14.0-14.1-liquorix-amd64/updates/dkms/
- Original module
- No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
- Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.
nvidia-current-modeset.ko:
- Uninstallation
- Deleting from: /lib/modules/4.14.0-14.1-liquorix-amd64/updates/dkms/
- Original module
- No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
- Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.
nvidia-current-drm.ko:
- Uninstallation
- Deleting from: /lib/modules/4.14.0-14.1-liquorix-amd64/updates/dkms/
- Original module
- No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
- Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.
nvidia-current-uvm.ko:
- Uninstallation
- Deleting from: /lib/modules/4.14.0-14.1-liquorix-amd64/updates/dkms/
- Original module
- No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
- Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.
depmod...
DKMS: uninstall completed.
------------------------------
Deleting module version: 375.82
completely from the DKMS tree.
------------------------------
Done.
Loading new nvidia-current-375.82 DKMS files...
Building for 4.10.5-antix.3-amd64-smp 4.14.0-14.1-liquorix-amd64
Building initial module for 4.10.5-antix.3-amd64-smp
Done.
nvidia-current:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/4.10.5-antix.3-amd64-smp/updates/dkms/
nvidia-current-modeset.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/4.10.5-antix.3-amd64-smp/updates/dkms/
nvidia-current-drm.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/4.10.5-antix.3-amd64-smp/updates/dkms/
nvidia-current-uvm.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/4.10.5-antix.3-amd64-smp/updates/dkms/
depmod...
DKMS: install completed.
Building initial module for 4.14.0-14.1-liquorix-amd64
Done.
nvidia-current:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/4.14.0-14.1-liquorix-amd64/updates/dkms/
nvidia-current-modeset.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/4.14.0-14.1-liquorix-amd64/updates/dkms/
nvidia-current-drm.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/4.14.0-14.1-liquorix-amd64/updates/dkms/
nvidia-current-uvm.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/4.14.0-14.1-liquorix-amd64/updates/dkms/
depmod...
DKMS: install completed.